Explores the practice of product development at NEC. The company provides an intriguing example of how to build an opportunity through the stream of product development projects. Focusing in detail on the engineering group that develops the key components to its line of supercomputers and mainframes, following its evolution through several generations of the product. "Hide
by Marco Iansiti Source: Harvard Business School 21 pages. Publication Date: April 7, 1993. Prod. #: 693095-PDF-ENG
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